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By Paulus Kaufmann, Hannes Kuch, Christian Neuhaeuser, Elaine Webster
Degradation, dehumanization, instrumentalization, humiliation, and nonrecognition – those suggestions aspect to ways that we comprehend humans to be violated of their dignity. Violations of human dignity are caused by means of concrete practices and prerequisites; a few in most cases said, equivalent to torture and rape, and others extra contested, reminiscent of poverty and exclusion. This quantity collates reflections on such recommendations and a number of practices, deepening our figuring out of human dignity and its violation, bringing to the skin interrelationships and commonalities, and pointing to the values which are thereby proven to be at risk. In providing a streamlined dialogue from a destructive viewpoint, complemented by way of conclusions for a favorable account of human dignity, the publication is without delay a contribution to the physique of literature on what dignity is and the way it's going to be safe in addition to constituting an alternate, clean and targeted standpoint suitable to this crucial habitual debate. because the idea of human dignity itself crosses disciplinary limitations, this can be reflected within the specific variety of views introduced by means of the book’s eu and American participants – in philosophy and ethics, legislation, human rights, literature, cultural stories and interdisciplinary learn. This quantity may be of curiosity to social and ethical philosophers, criminal and human rights theorists, practitioners and students.
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This is an attack on his social honor, but it is also humiliating because it destroys the former teacher’s self-respect. The destruction is not due to the fact that he cannot teach anymore – maybe he did not like teaching at all; the way people look at him in public is the real problem. Still, the teacher is not rejected from humanity but only from the group of those who are thought to be fit to be teachers. Maybe people think: Well, he is a good man and fellow citizen, but we cannot let someone with such a religion instruct our children.
I will come back to potential problems regarding the treatment of Muslims in Western societies when I discuss representative group humiliation later. 2. The second case can be called symbolic group humiliation. Here, not all members of a group are directly confronted or threatened with humiliating acts. Instead, 4 This is also clearly captured in the social and political theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth (1996). 5 This is not meant to negate that in fact the groups that are humiliated for certain reasons, because they are of different faith for instance or are of a lower social status.
First, in Guantanamo Bay, the victims are seen as terrorists. This is not to say that there is no danger that Western society is on the edge of committing cases of representative group humiliations. I think it is imperative to move very carefully here by being especially clear that terrorism and Islam have no internal connection at all. Not only are group humiliations morally as bad as individual humiliations, but, moreover, severe damage is done to peaceful and respectful relations between two groups of people when members of one humiliates members of the other.